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Dear Visitor,
I can hear you already: "What on earth should we care about what you read?
Should that
make us more learned, by any chance? Whoever could be so impressed by such an
inane
show off of your miserable education?" I thank you for such a demonstration of
your good
will, which I certainly do not deserve, but it is not my intention to show off
(I do not have any wish
to transcribe all the hundreds of titles that have marked my life! :-) nor to
increase the
already considerable amount of noise that troubles the Net with rather useless
information.
On the contrary, I simply want to do justice to those authors who have
contributed to my
(personal and writing) growth, trusting that, out of this small collection of
books, you too
might discover some long-lost treasures. Reading my explanatory notes you will
see that not all
of these books have encountered my total favor; nevertheless, they too have had
their
share in my training. So, my advice to you is that you approach this list as a
sort of "reasoned
bibliography", to be taken with a tiny grain of salt. For any further
information, comments,
suggestions and/or complaints, please do not hesitate to
write to me
.
Be warned that links to Amazon UK are present both in the titles (not all) of
the works cited and in the covers presented on the right-hand columns of these
pages. By clicking through them you are brought directly to the individual
item.
This site is under constant revision; so, you are kindly invited to return
often!
One small note:
Most books present in this Collection are available, even in the original
text, at Amazon.co.uk. However, several of them, marked with this tiny star,
can be freely downloaded from the following online libraries:
Liber Liber
The Italian version of Project Gutenberg
url: http://www.liberliber.it/
Association Lyonnaise
Cultural association with a very pleasant site, including a few good texts.
url: http://www.alyon.org
Bibliothéque universelle
The French version of the same
url: http://abu.cnam.fr/
Athena - Authors & Texts
Elenco pressocché definitivo di tutti i testi francesi online
url: http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/fran_fr.html
Encyclopaedia of the Self - Authors' Directory
A great deal of texts that are no longer copyright protected; mostly in
English, but not exclusively
url: http://authorsdirectory.com/index.shtml
Project Gutenberg
You know what I mean...
url: http://www.promo.net/pg/index.html
UVA Electronic Text Center
Some sections (esp. Old and Middle English) are not accessible to non-UVA
users. Yet the choice remains quite
wide.
url: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
A few good books...
url: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Litérature Française (Appalachian State University)
A pageful of literary resources
url: http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/fll/french_lit.html
For a wider view of online libraries, not entirely aloof from polemical
considerations on Bill Gates, from the University of Geneve site:
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/perroud/cip_info.html
For a complete list of online libraries:
Directory of Electronic Etext Centers
:
url: http://harvest.rutgers.edu/ceth/etext_directory/
Littera Scripta
url: http://www.litterascripta.com/comp/index.shtml
a good point to start searching for books and links...
All funds derived by sales at
Amazon.co.uk
through
the links in these pages are used to cover the costs
that are necessary to support maintenance of this
site. Hence, should you find any enjoyment and/or
usefulness in the contents of this site, you are
highly encouraged to purchase books at this
online store. Thank you.
Marina Pianu (a.k.a. Madsilk)
Fiction
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